Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-06
THE FIcrITIoNIsT's STORY.

one Monroe Parker at a camp-meeting
Parker is remarkably like Tommie Gu
yerius. "How like Cousin Tommit
was her first thought when introduced
TO him" They marry secretly "be
cause his father was millionaire, and
had lOveless but ambitious marriage
in view for him, his only son. He
soon deserted her, and she went
to Mrs. Dickinson's to teach
Tommie learns what has been
done, and chivalrously undertakes to
befriend her He meets her in
Richmond to assist her in getting a
home for the occasion. Out walking
Lillian meets her husband disguised as
"the old man." Throwing off his dis
guise he goes with Lillian to all the
places where Lillian was said to have
been seen with Cluverius by the wit
nesses; but he will hot claim his wife,
and leaves her again. So she resolves
to go to the Dunstans' and beg them to
care for her. Tommie goes With her and
leaves her near Dunstan's, and that was
the last he ever saw of her. Her heart
failed her and she did not enter the
Dunstan house but after stopping in
front of the house, absent-mindedly
laid her shawl on the palings and went
off and left it.
SHE MEETS HER MURDERER
She walks on until she meets Jim
Lewis, who knocks her down and takes
her satchel away from her. "He had
been used to throw sacks of grain ia the
old times when his father made him
work, and he threw that girl into the
waters with the arm of a Hercules She
sunk with hollow plunge that sounded
in that lonely place so loud and
strange TO the murderer that it filed
his guilty soul with unutterable
horror. And then the awful 81
lence that came after that plumge.
He turned to fly and saw a black, shape
less thing lying there. What was it?
1t filed him with fear, but at last he
saw it was the dead girls hat. Itwould
never do to leave it there. SO he took
it up and fled from the spot, but as he
was running and looking behind him
fearing the dead girl with fear that
froze his very heart, her handbag came
open and something bright rolled out.
What was it? He hadnot timeto look
he had taken life for money 1850 that
Cluverius had provided her with; but
money WAS now nothing to him. He
could not stop to look for anything and
that murdered girl so near"
Then he distributes herclothing. The
watch-key rolls ont of her bag. Gu
verius goes to Mozart Hall, and reaches
there as the audience is leaving. One
woman did see him at the Mozart, and
told her mother that night when she
returned home that Tommie Cluverius
was at the Mozart. Lewis goes to New
York. Stung by remorse, he writes a
letter to the chief Of police confessing
the crime. Then he kills himself.
DEATH OF THE sO-CALLED HUSBAND.
Monroe Parker also flies to New York.
where he dies-but before 20 doing
makes this confession:
We'll, said the dying man, u am
the man calling himself Monroe Parker,
and / was at that camp-meeting with
Lillian Madison, and betrayed her by
a false marriage, for | have a wife and |
child living in Germany. / deceived |
the poor girl; my love for her was a
guilty love, but hers for me was pure,
and she was a pure woman-pure as !
the angels are. The marriage cere-
nony between us took place in Wash |
ngton city, and We lived together as
man and wife three weeks in Fair
lax county. You see | wanted |
% be secret about it; and, as
we'll as l had laid my plans, letter
'Ound its way to me from my wife in |
iermany threatening to come to Ameri-
"a, and 1 became alarmed and told Lii
ian my father was dying, and so |
Darted with her, as she thought for a
hort time, but l thought forever. /
aw her, though, in Richmond on the
9th of March, and went with her to
il the places where Cluverius had
been traced with her She fancied me
Ike Cluverius, and she called me
Jousin Tommie, and |, having much to
ear from my wife, / encouraged her
o call me Cousin Tommie / swear /
Iad no other motive"
The watch-key found at the reser-
on" Joel swore he mended it for
'luveIius. Joel never saw that watch
ey. 81 gave it 10 Lillian myself 1t
'as an old German vatch-key. Cluye-
ius killed Lillian Madison, though
lied her to save the honor Or his fam
". l attended the trial every day,
nd heard all the evidence-he GER
ainly killed her. was the old man
the American Hotel, and ] saw Gu
erius there for the first time, and am
Ike him. And that detective Wren,
tho thinks himself so smart, searched !
for the old man, and used
0 rub by him every day."
Here an awful smile-a smile full OF
unning, and just simply diabolical,
anne upon the dying face. Frightened
such a smile at such time ] could
OF speak at once, but seeing the fea-
lres with that smile of low cunning
aught upon them, settling fast into
ertain death, by-stander said, "Clu-
erius did not kill Lillian Madison.
he murderer has been found out"
he words were too late, though-they !
sll upon dead ears, and still that hor-
ible smile was there upon the dead
ice. He was face-maker, as has been |
zen. And yet as he lay there he was
Ike the young and handsome Cluyerius.
% wonder he had passed to casual OBJ
srvers for Cluverius in his cell await
lg felon's death, and this man had
rought it all upon him."
Then follows somewhat sinucus
DRY Of how the narrator, with all these
cts in his possession, fastened here to
" them before the Governor, but was ,
reyented BY a series Of accidents, and
Of here too late-&c., &c.
The pamphlet is cleyerly written and
in most respects an ingenious web OF
lrcies and facts, intended 10 set up a
leory possibly consistent with the in
ocence of Cluverius.
1.-The hotel note" the scratches on
le hand, the evidence of Colonel
ames, who knew Cluverius and saw
i'm with Lillian near the American
-otel, the behavior of the prisoner
hen arrested, the displacement of his
iarm-chain by prisoner, Joels posi-
nc identification of the key before the
oyernor, and hundred other facts of
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